The Best Episodes Written By Elle Johnson

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.7/10(18 votes)

   #1 - Aye Papi

   S3:E84/20/2017

   Bosch operates behind-the-scenes to expose wrongdoers. Killers are in the wind. Edgar deals with the fallout of a crucial choice.

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   8.7/10(21 votes)

   #2 - Dark Sky

   S4:E84/12/2018

   Hollywood Station goes on TAC Alert. Irving plots his next moves. With new evidence, the Elias case takes an unexpected turn. Maddie tries to connect with her past. Bosch harbors doubts about his Task Force and interviews a new suspect.

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   8.4/10(20 votes)

   #3 - Past Lives

   S4:E44/12/2018

   Det. Francis Sheehan comes clean to Bosch, Robertson suspects a leak in the investigation, and Edgar joins the Task Force. Social unrest surrounding the Elias murder grows and Irving is pressured to intervene. Eleanor asks Bosch for parenting advice and confesses the truth about her marriage to Reggie Woo.

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #4 - The Walker Girl

   S1:E33/20/2020

   Sarah's ambitious plans for expanding her empire take her to New York — and lead to betrayals personal and professional that threaten all she's built.

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   8.2/10(20 votes)

   #5 - Blood Under the Bridge

   S3:E54/20/2017

   The secret effort to smear Bosch intensifies. Harry and his colleagues struggle to uncover who's trying to frame him. Irving closes a chapter in his personal life, but is ensnared in departmental politics. Bosch digs into the history of former soldiers under suspicion. Killers pull off a major score.

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   8.2/10(19 votes)

   #6 - The Last Scrip

   S5:E34/18/2019

   Bosch investigates new evidence that may overturn Borders' conviction, but he remains convinced they locked up the right man. Lieutenant Billets is forced to deal with Crate and Barrel's role in the accident at the pharmacy crime scene. Bosch and Edgar track the pill mill van to an unexpected destination, while Edgar gets shocking news about Gary Wise.

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Deja Boo

   S2:E131/12/2007

   Melinda finds that she must stop a ghost who doesn't want to be reincarnated again. Melinda finds out that someone knows her secret. Delia has second thoughts about dinner date.

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #8 - The Ghost Within

   S2:E410/13/2006

   After purchasing a set of ornaments at a flea market, Melinda finds that they are haunted. Melinda uses the ornaments to meet Dennis’s ghost. Dennis wants Melinda to reunite his girlfriend with her birth mother.

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   7.6/10(7 votes)

   #9 - Gunplay

   S15:E510/20/2004

   After Green goes undercover to gather evidence on the gun dealers who murdered two detectives during a buy-and-bust, McCoy is able to connect the hit men to the attorney who paid them to avenge the death of his gun-running stepson at the hands of the same detectives during a similar buy-and-bust several years earlier.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Friendly Neighborhood Ghost

    S1:E131/6/2006

    The ghost of an elderly man suspects Melinda's new neighbor of killing his granddaughter.

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    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Ain't No Love

    S15:E131/12/2005

    When a rap producer is found shot to death in his studio, detectives focus on his protege, whose demos link him and a friend to a second murder. As the investigation unfolds, Southerlyn's opinions put her sharply at odds with both McCoy and Branch.

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    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #12 - Killzone

    S1:E911/18/2002

    During a typical morning rush hour in downtown Miami, an unseen sniper chooses three victims at random and opens fire, killing each with a single shot to the head. Horatio and his crew rush to the scene, which is quickly mobbed by TV news reporters eager to spin the murders into a national story. The initial investigation doesn't reveal much, as there were no witnesses and little evidence remains. But the case heats up when the sniper strikes again, killing two more innocent people.

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13. 

    7.3/10(17 votes)

    #13 - Workaround

    S7:E76/24/2021

    Robertson and Bennett follow the hitman’s trail to Las Vegas, hoping to find a connection to Fowkkes’ other clients. When Billets performs a security evaluation at a local jewelry shop, she gets more than she bargained for. Irving gives Bosch an order, causing Bosch to lose faith in the system he has defended his entire career.

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    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Forced Entry

    S1:E142/3/2003

    A nude man is found tied to his bed, having suffocated on a rag stuffed in his mouth while he was being sexually assaulted. Meanwhile, while investigating the murder of a crematorium owner, the CSIs discover dozens of bodies that were never cremated.

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    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #15 - Homecoming

    S1:E610/23/2005

    Melinda helps an angry teenage ghost and discovers the secret that is likely to shake up the ones left behind by him.

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    6.8/10(6 votes)

    #16 - The Sixth Man

    S15:E162/16/2005

    McCoy prosecutes a famous basketball star accused of murdering a man who was suing him because of a massive brawl between players and fans.

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    6.0/10(10 votes)

    #17 - Grave Young Men

    S1:E204/14/2003

    Horatio is approached by a parolee he helped put away several years ago, who begs for his assistance in finding his missing teenage son. As the investigation gets underway, Horatio discovers that the boy may be planning a deadly assault at his high school. Meanwhile, as Speedle investigates a man's death, the victim's flirtatious girlfriend, who was there when he died, tries to play on Speedle's obvious attraction to her.

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